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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Off-air Raw note, new WWE legend contract, Diva out hurt, become a professional spot monkey, Survival of the Fittest qualifiers, Interviews with Hall/Charlotte/Stone Cold, Raw audience, and Questions on Rollins vs. Reigns, the future of the Dudleys, why WWE's working with EVOLVE, selling, and Zeb working with Del Rio

There were no dark matches before or after Raw, which is somewhat surprising. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have Tyler Breeze or Brad Maddox/Joshua Kingsley get a test run before larger audiences before being part of things on a more regular basis.

Tatanka has signed a new Legends contract with WWE. I wouldn't mind him doing a few special appearances like they have guys like Slaughter do every once in a while.

Nikki Bella is working to overcome an injury. She's earned the time off after that long title reign.

ROH is doing a training seminar this weekend in Pennsylvania for aspiring flippy jabronis.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
The qualification matches for this year's ROH Survival of the Fittest are:
- ACH vs. Matt Sydal
- Mark Briscoe vs. Hanson vs. Kenny King vs. Christopher Daniels
- Kazarian vs. Rhett Titus vs. Jay Briscoe vs. Raymond Rowe
- Moose vs. Michael Elgin vs. Adam Cole
- Silas Young vs. Adam Page vs. Dalton Castle
- Cedric Alexander vs. Roderick Strong

The winners of those matches will face off the next night in an elimination match where the winner wins a future match for the ROH World Championship. That's pretty Russo-riffic, but ROH is all about just having a bunch of clustermesses with spots everywhere.

Scott Hall is the latest guest on YouShoot: Trailer A Trailer B. This has the potential to be really funny in a twisted way. I don't recommend doing what he's done outside the ring. Some great stories from someone who's really traveled.

Charlotte talked before a comic con appearance. I'm glad she hasn't just tried to be Ric Flair 2.0.

Stone Cold talked about WM32 and more:

- It made sense to use him to put over a current angle.

- Austin working in the current WWE would be interesting given the restrictions on content, etc..

- Wins and losses can matter, but they're not everything. There's also room for personal issues amid all the fights for belts.

- Austin just putting a stunner on someone (or more than one someone) at WM32 should be fine. Like the angle he did with Santino a few years ago.

Raw's audience this week was 3.25 million viewers. They've really been at low tide for a good while now.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. I see Ambrose inadvertently (?) costing Reigns the title to set up a triple threat TLC match for December.

2. They'll just work with other teams in the meantime. I doubt we've seen the last of them in title matches, but for now, it doesn't look like they're going to be working with New Day.

3. EVOLVE is providing a roster of potential future NXT signees, or at least people who can come in and raise the "indie credibility" of WWE's brand. This raises EVOLVE's profile among people who want to eventually make it to WWE, and provides more work for the people there. It's a pretty solid deal for both sides.

4. I'm a fan of it from the standpoint of someone being hit so hard they spit, although it's kind of disgusting in some ways.

5. Because Zeb is AMAZING and a heat magnet. He's a stronger promo than Alberto, and adds something new to the whole act. I'm really glad the two of them are together.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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